Now one trend has meshed with another. KIRO-TV reports that last Friday, protesters assembling outside the Joint Base Lewis-McChord in DuPont, Wash., were met by””get ready for it””a wall of the living dead.

The event was organized on Facebook by Melissa Neace and three of her fellow zombie enthusiasts. Neace wrote on the page:

I have decided that the most violent free way to protest back is simple “¦ a zombie apocalypse. So I ask EVERYONE who is able to attend that day, please come dressed in your finest zombie outfit.

At the event, Neace told the News Tribune, “We wanted to turn something negative around, into something people could laugh at and poke fun at. It was the easiest way to divert attention from something so hateful.”

It remains to be seen whether a zombie theme is the most appropriate vehicle for honoring fallen heroes, but suffice it to say that DuPont has its share of zombie hobbyists. The zombies outnumbered the protestors by a reported level of 300 to 8.

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